So while doing some study prep on Windows 10 topics, I came across a section outline the workings of User Account Control or UAC. I know exhilarating stuff! Now this may or may not be common knowledge and if I am just repeating myself on content everyone already knows I apologise. I know most of…Read More

As you deploy Windows 10 CB, you can create one or more servicing plans to define the deployment rings that you want in your environment, and then monitor them in the Windows 10 servicing dashboard inside SCCM. Servicing plans use only the Upgrades software updates classification, not cumulative updates for Windows 10. For those updates,…Read More

Every time I have to make a fresh package for Visual C++ for a build and capture I cringe, because I know I will be spending the next couple of hours rounding up all the downloads like some cowboy navigating the wild west. Today that changes. This is why powershell is a thing! The video…Read More

File and folder permissions are really important to Windows. Sometimes a user may mess with the permissions causing software or even the operating system to work in an undesired way. There’s a simple way to solve this kind of problems without headaches, using the ICACLS command. Launch the command prompt as an Administrator and navigate through the tree of folders you need to…Read More

Has imaging machines with Windows 10 turned into a nightmare because the Start Menu, Cortana, and even the Action Center would not work once the Domain GPO had been pushed to the machines? I had gone through what seemed like 100s’ of blogs and tried everything they suggested and nothing worked (I will include those…Read More

Yeah it can be a bit of a pain! If you apply the following GPO and then try it again, it should get around the problem. Computer Configuration>>Administrative Templates>>System>>Specify settings for optional component installation and component repair You can set it to enabled and specify the settings or just set it to Disabled and it…Read More